I’ve been remiss. I should have talked a bit about the events of last Saturday: truth is I was struck by a stomach bug on Tuesday night and have been a little bit out of things. If you’re interested, there is a video of the ‘Fringe Frivolous‘ event of the Friday evening and lots and…

I’ve been struggling to get some ‘About’ pages in shape for the new site, and all of a sudden Broad has got four wickets, and things are looking a lot more exciting for England. But over the last few weeks we (that is F1000, not the England XI) have been getting some very flattering emails…

Excuse me while I indulge in some shameless company promotion here. Scientific research is a pretty fast-moving place to be. In some places I’ve worked in there were unofficial competitions to notice a hot paper and send it round to your colleagues. Not sure what the prize was, to be honest: a golden computer mouse…

You might have noticed that I’ve been tweeting random recent evaluations. I do this a couple of times a day (well, that’s the plan, at least), simply highlighting stuff that I find interesting, without having the time to write a proper post about the original articles. (This, by the way, is what I find to…

You’ve probably seen all the fuss over Wyeth and the ghost-writing of medical articles, along with the associated smugness of certain commentators. According to my contacts in the medical comms industry, the practice as such is nothing new, and there are very, very strong guidelines. The creative outrage we’re seeing is really rather misplaced: Well,…

Alejandro brings my attention to ScienceWatch’s list of most-cited institutions in science. This is the list of the ‘top’ twenty institutions out of just over four thousand. For some value of ‘top’, he says snarkily. Now, we know there are serious problems with citation metrics, but essentially it’s all we’ve got to go on, so…